The Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico and Nao d’amores co-produce the play El Castillo de Lindabridis, which will be performed at the Teatro de la Comedia (Calle Príncipe, 14) until 10 March.
The company Nao d’amores, with more than two decades dedicated to artistic creation, collaborates once again with the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico to bring to the stage a little known Calderón, being also the first time that the director, Ana Zamora, tackles this author and also her first incursion into baroque theatre, after years dedicated to medieval and renaissance theatre.
El Castillo de Lindabridis was first published in 1691, although it is believed to have been performed as a courtly celebration in the Royal Hall of the Palace in 1661. To write this play, Calderón had been inspired by Diego Ortúñez de Calahorra’s Espejo de príncipes y caballeros, specifically El Caballero del Febo, and although it was published in 1555, like all good chivalric novels, it refers to an earlier time, to the medieval period.
The work tells how the princess Lindabridis, in order to inherit the throne of Tartary, must marry a knight who can defeat her brother Meridian in a tournament. To do so, she travels the world in a flying castle in search of the husband who best suits her needs.
Lindabridis is a story full of fantasy, in which the main characters are two women. Two strong women, who take the initiative. There are many adventures, sword fights, mythological beings, songs and dances. A party in which the audience is an important part of the world that is recreated on stage. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
